Hearings: Killed worker told wife he was working on oil well 'from hell'

This is an update from the joint hearings by the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement investigating the causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on April 20. The hearings reconvened Thursday.

Roughneck Shane Roshto's widow said that before her husband's death on the Deepwater Horizon, he told her the Gulf oil well he was drilling was "from hell" and that "Mother Nature just doesn't want us to drill here."

Natalie Roshto of Liberty, Miss., appeared Thursday before a Marine Board panel investigating the April 20 disaster.

She has testified before several congressional committees about what her husband shared with her in the days and hours before the accident. The couple often spoke more than once a day while he was offshore.

In a tacit push against President Barack Obama's drilling moratorium, Natalie Roshto told the investigative panel that more safety rules aren't necessary and unique dangers to this particular well led to the deaths of 11 workers, including Shane Roshto, and the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

"I don't think we need more safety rules," she said. "The ones out there need to be implemented harder for our men providing necessary commodities."